@#4 ... Really? You have no idea what this means. ...

For starters, your alias has not a clue what I do and do not know.

OK, that aside ...

I view this similar to posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

Little more than an abject affirmation of the weakness of a religion.

... Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, reversed himself on the Senate filibuster Wednesday after years of unflinching support ...

So, if the voters decide to elect him, which of the two persona will they get to represent them?

So telling.

Another step closer to forcing the United States to become a White Christian Nation.

Next we will see the forced deportation of people based upon their non-white skin color.

From the cited article...

... A federal appeals court has delivered what is being described as a "landmark" ruling that affirms a Texas teacher's "right to pray" on school grounds.

That means her principal violated clearly established law when he ordered her to stop.

The American Center for Law and Justice said, "The court's reasoning was sweeping: The Constitution does not permit a school official to silence a teacher's private, personal prayer simply because a student might see it." ...

@#299 ... Trying to pressure Christians with scripture to support your political position is dishonest. ...

So, now your alias seems to think it speaks for all Christians?

And, if I may add, has your alias not cited Christian beliefs in substantiation of the political opinions is has posted?

More from the article ...

... Now, a new paper reveals how they do it. Included in the bumblebee survival toolkit is the remarkable ability to extract oxygen from the water around them " literally allowing them to breathe underwater temporarily.

It's a skill set that can help the heart of a colony weather a crisis such as a flooded burrow, allowing her to survive and rebuild when conditions are more stable. And its discovery suggests that some species may have hidden reserves of resilience against environmental extremes.

"Our findings," writes a team led by evolutionary physiologist Charles Darveau of the University of Ottawa in Canada, "reveal a remarkable flooding-tolerance strategy and provide a foundation for exploring the limits, mechanisms, and ecological significance of underwater survival in terrestrial insects." ...

@#4 ... In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime. ...

My guess, and it is only that, is that Pres Trump thought his ~one and done~ success in Venezuela would carry over to his unprovoked war on Iran.

@#2 ... At least Putin is happy... ...

A goal, or a burden?

My guess is more with the former than the latter.

So, no ...

--- regime change

--- unconditional surrender

--- picking the next leader

@#2 ... Israel's ongoing genocide ...

That comment is from Amnesty International.

Let that sink in ...

... Amnesty International reports: "Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip have been "denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely" ...

The cited link, disturbingly, goes further than that ...

... Over the past 29 months the devastating, multilayered impact of Israel's ongoing genocide has pushed Palestinian women and girls in the occupied Gaza Strip to the brink, said Amnesty International today.

Amid Israel's deliberate imposition of conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza, Palestinian women face compounded and life-threatening consequences that have materialized through ongoing mass displacement, the collapse of reproductive, maternal and newborn healthcare; interruption of treatment for chronic illness, including cancer; heightened exposure to disease and unsafe and undignified living conditions; as well as profound physical and mental harm.

These harms are exacerbated by Israel's ongoing restrictions on the entry into Gaza of items indispensable to the survival of the civilian population including adequate food, medicines, medical equipment and assistive devices, shelter material and equipment necessary for the purification of water and removal of rubble, unexploded ordnance and waste. Israel continues to impose these restrictions amid life-threatening delays on medical evacuations and the suspension of registration of international humanitarian organizations that provide essential services for women and girls.

Women have been forced to give birth without adequate medical care, to endure pregnancy and post-partum recovery while displaced in overcrowded and unsanitary sites, and to navigate hunger, disease, and trauma with little privacy, protection, or access to essential services often while caring for others....

@#33 ... A government that seeks to live entirely on heavily secured premises should concern you. ...

Worth a repeat, imo.

... o release 172 million barrels of oil ...

So, eight or nine days of oil that would have traversed the Strait of Hormuz.

That's good. (tactic)

But not a solution. (strategy)

@#11 ... You think such focused targeting will result in a significant windfall for the Repubs in November and beyond? ...

Do I think that?

Possibly.

Do I have a serious concern about that?

Yes.

Might the Republicans try to use this issue to distract voters from other issues that are not, let's say, popular for Republicans?

In my view, it is Politics 101.

Focus upon what the voters want you to say.

On the other hand, the race for the replacement of MTG in Georgia looks interesting....

@#8 ... What political ramification do you find frightening? ...

Republicans (and their financiers, a.k.a.the NRA) exploiting it as a reason for gaining votes.

A lot of what the Republicans have been doing regarding guns of late is frightening to me.

And when the NRA is involved...

Well, do I need to bring up Maria Butina, and the videos?

But, that's likely a different thread...

@#6 ... Wouldn't minesweepers be part of a standard carrier group? Or are they typically never in restricted space where mines are tenable? ...

Yeah, that was what I asked myself as i tried to figure out WTF is occurring in Trump's Iran War.

Were there no strategy people involved in the discussions leading up to Trump's War, people who may have told him about Iran's counter-attack plans?

(I'm hearing thunder. It's March here, I should not be hearing thunder.)

@#16 ...PWZ - DR for "conservative" malcontents that couldn't handle the DR and needed a safe-space ...

Whoa.

I did not know that.

So, what, did they try to create a new message board?

If so, how did that work out? Given the popularity of FoxNews, my first guess would be that it worked out well for them.

But I do not know, just guesses here ....

... "If the flow of illegal weapons from the United States into Mexico were stopped, these groups wouldn't have access to this type of high-powered weaponry to carry out their criminal activities," President Claudia Sheinabum said at her daily news conference, citing a statistic from the U.S. Department of Justice that 75% of guns used by criminal groups in Mexico were smuggled from the United States. ... [emphasis mine]

So, what might Pres Trump do about that?

Or is he only concerned about the illegal activities coming into the Country? But seems to be quite OK with the US exporting weapons of illegal activities?

@#6 ... Seems reasonable?!?

Seems ludicrous.

Stupid, really. ...

Yep.

For starters...

To attempt to equate a peaceful protest with J6 fails at the outset.

OK, moving to a slang-oriented search engine ...